I mentioned in a post way back when that I spoke at this great conference in the beginning of November: I was honored to be the keynote speaker and loved that I had the opportunity to think about “how to open your door to a Christ-centered home” and find peace in our homes for that…
Day two in Boston we were more prepared for the cold. Because us desert girls about froze our skin off the day before. Luckily Saydi has collected lots of layers of warmth over the years living winters through Boston, and we matched her stuff with our own meager offerings and did the layering in…
It was a giant party here in the desert all week leading up to Thanksgiving, and after too. Every one of Dave’s siblings was in town. All nine of them. This is how [at least part of] the room looks when everyone’s together: We had Dave’s sister and her family staying with us for the…
The importance of what’s on our walls: walls quotes On honoring how unique each child is: talents praise star of the month awards instilling confidence five-facet reviews Teaching hard work: hard work & independence parenting breakthrough hard work enjoying the journey (working with kids) On creating a family identity: family mottos family home evening family…
I’m taking a break from documenting summer because it ended today. And school started. We are home after a whirlwind summer and they marched off this morning, red-faced from the heat and excited. Instead of diving into that little fact (that’s coming tomorrow), I want to say a few words about having a shrinking family….
By the end of Thanksgiving break our Thankful Tree looked like this: Let’s get a closer look at each side before we took it all down to make way for Christmas: There we go:) Every now and again the kids’ friends would ask for leaves so they could write their own grateful stuff to add…
Oh boy I forgot to hit “publish” this morning. Dang, over and over each day I wish I could sit down and write down so many swirling thoughts pulsating through my head about life and religion and feelings and parenting and shining and figuring out how to help my kids see the shining and BE…
Lucy has never been super motivated by our chore/job/money system dealio. (see HERE and HERE) She actually does her jobs and makes her bed just so every morning, but she doesn’t mark of the chart. I guess she hasn’t been too motivated to earn money until last week when the book fair rolled around. She had…
I just tried to post this as a comment in the last post, but it won’t let me because it’s so dang long. So for what it’s worth, here you go. Thank you for all the insightful comments…I’m finally back to give my own two-cents, although I’m not sure blogger takes comments this long! {it…